History Ireland magazine has now been in production for over 27 years. The History Ireland Podcast covers a wide variety of topics, from the earliest times to the present day, in an effort to give the listener a sense of the distant past but also to offer a contemporary edge.
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Ireland’s rich and turbulent history is explored in a series written by the late Dr Jonathan Bardon.
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The Irish Republic's foundation is one hell of a story, complete with spying secretaries, pig thieves, politicians, poets, school teachers and the world's biggest empire. In quick, bite-sized episodes, we're going to explore the causes, characters and aftermath of the Irish War of Independence. Support the show through Patreon for bonus content and ad free listening! www.patreon.com/thehistoryofireland Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Book 1: Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 1 begins with the earliest modern settlement of Ireland and ends with the 8th century.
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True tales from Ireland's haunted past.
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Ulster's story is always told by the partisan and vocal few who feel the need to air their grievances, or by the moderate masses who keep it bland and balanced. Me, i just want to tell it how it is.
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(Recorded live on Sunday 29 September 2024, @ The Substation, Alexandra Road, Dublin, D01 H4C6) In 1986, the maritime historian, John de Courcey Ireland, wrote: ‘The lives of island peoples like Ireland’s [have] been dominated by the seas encircling them. Yet this fact has been largely ignored by Irish historians’. Is Irish history still ‘sea blind…
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Omnibus #12 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Broadcasting North and South• Showband fever• Whitaker and Lemass• Lemass and Brookeborough• Brookeborough’s fall Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #11 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Church and state• The Fethard On Sea boycott• A disgrace to the nation• The launch of the Canberra• De Valera’s vision of Cathleen ni Houlihan Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #10 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Operation Harvest• Defeat for the IRA• Stagnation• The vanishing Irish• Inishkillane Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.بقلم BBC Radio Ulster
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Omnibus #9 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The Princess Victoria disaster• Linen, boom and collapse• Shipbuilding in Belfast• Marching on the Longstone Road• The revival of the IRA Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #8 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The Chapel Gate Election• Conquering the white death• The Mother and Child controversy• Lacklustre performance• The rule of Brookeborough Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #6 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • VE Day• Controversial condolences• Northern Ireland elections 1945• The Welfare State• Northern Ireland, a very substantial measure of government aid Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #7 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The winter of 1947• The 1947 Education Act • The family of the republic• The inter-party government• Ireland, a republic Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #4 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • German guests of the state• American visitors• The tramp of marching Yanks• Don’t be a dope• Governing Éire, 1939 to 1945 Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #2 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Neither time nor gold can beat Germany• Censorship in Éire, 1939 to 1945• The period of the next moon may well bring our turn• The Easter Tuesday Belfast Blitz• Tremendous devastation Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymo…
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Omnibus #1 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The Emergency, Éire 1939• We here today are in a state of war• Failed preparations• Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic• The Magazine Fort attack, December 1939 Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #48 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • An empty political formula• The Economic War• Democracy in peril• Forget the unhappy past• Crying for a happier life Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #47 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Civil war• Green against green• Divided Ulster• Not an inch• Northern Ireland: depression years Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.بقلم BBC Radio Ulster
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Omnibus #44 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The conspirators prepare• We are going to be slaughtered• Easter Week• Executions and internment• Sacrifice at the Somme Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #42 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Killing Home Rule with kindness• De-anglicizing the Irish people• Two nations?• Cultural revival• Home Rule promised Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #41 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Belfast: an imperial city• Committee Room 15• Keep our noble kingdom whole• The Second Home Rule Bill• The country is bleeding to death Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #40 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The relief of Captain Boycott• Assassination in the Phoenix Park• The First Home Rule Bill• ‘Is them ‘uns bate?’• The Belfast riots of 1886 Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #39 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The growth of Belfast• Party fights• My mission is to pacify Ireland• Keep a firm grip of your homesteads• The Land War Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #38 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Emigration• The Battle of Widow McCormack’s Cabbage Patch• The Fenian Brotherhood• The green flag will be flying independently• God Save Ireland Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #36 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Monster Meetings• A Nation Once Again?• The very extreme of human wretchedness• The far seeing merchants • So much wretchedness Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #37 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The census of 1841• Phytophthora infestans• Famine• The Famine in Skibereen• Fever Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.بقلم BBC Radio Ulster
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Omnibus #35 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The Clare Election• ‘Scum condensed of Irish bog!’• A social laboratory• The Tithe War• The Repealer repulsed Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #34 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Caravats and Shanavests• Ribbonmen, Orangemen and Rockites• Emancipation refused• The Catholic association• The ‘invasion’ of Ulster Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #33 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Jobbing with the most corrupt people under Heaven• The Passing of the Act of Union• Robert Emmet• Now is your time for liberty• Let no man write my epitaph Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey…
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Omnibus #32 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Rebellion in County Antrim• The rebellion in County Down• Vinegar Hill• The Races of Castlebar• The Union proposed Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #31 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Croppies, lie down• Rouse Hibernians, from your slumbers• The Boys of Wexford• The Battle of New Ross• The rebellion spreads north Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #30 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Earl Fitzwilliam’s failure● Peep o’Day Boys and Defenders● I will blow your soul to the low hills of Hell● The French are in the bay● Nothing but terror will keep them in order Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Do…
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Omnibus #29 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The failure to reform● The fourteenth of July 1789● The United Irishmen● The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792● At war with France Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey…
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Omnibus #28 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The voyage of the Sally● The American Revolution and Ireland● Free Trade – or Else● The Dungannon Convention of 1782● Grattan’s Parliament Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey…
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Omnibus #27 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The peasantry● Superfine cloth, of home manufacture● Ulster’s domestic linen industry● Wash-mills, bleach greens and beetling engines● A vast number of people shipping off for Pennsylvania and Boston Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, J…
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Omnibus #26 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Dublin: poverty, crime and duels● The Irish gentry are expensive people● A sort of despot● Hearts of Steel, Hearts of Oak● Clearing the land Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey…
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Omnibus #25 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● A modest proposal● 1740: the year of the Great Frost● 1741: the ‘Year of the Slaughter’● The first performance of Handel’s Messiah● The second city of the Empire Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean C…
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Omnibus #24 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The Penal Laws● The Minority Prevailing Over the Majority● The Protestant Ascendancy● John Dutton Eats and Sleeps in Connemara● Wood's Halfpence and the Drapier Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Cr…
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Omnibus #23 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The Battle of the Boyne● Galloping Hogan, Sarsfield and the Walls of Limerick● Athlone and Aughrim● Limerick - A Second Siege and a Treaty● The Wild Geese Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey…
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Omnibus #22 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Lilliburlero● Three Kings and Thirteen Apprentice Boys● No Surrender● The Relief of Derry● Schomberg Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummeyبقلم BBC Radio Ulster
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Omnibus #21 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Restoration Ireland● The Duke and the City● Work, Food and Leisure● The Popish Plot● The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunkett Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey…
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Omnibus #6 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● At Baginbun Ireland Was Lost and Won● A Tale of Two Sieges● Henry II Comes to Ireland● Conquests and a Failed Treaty● John, Lord of Ireland Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #20 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Civil War● Cromwell● The Curse of Cromwell● To Hell or Connacht● Priests and Tories Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummeyبقلم BBC Radio Ulster
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Omnibus #19 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The Eagle Wing and the Black Oath● Presbyterian Anger, Catholic Resentment● October 1641, The Plot That Failed● The 1641 Massacres● The Confederation of Kilkenny Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean C…
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Omnibus #18 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Make Speede, Get Thee to Ulster● The Londonderry Plantation● The Luck of the Draw● The Heretics Intend to Vomit Out All Their Poison● Thomas Wentworth and the Graces Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Se…
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Omnibus #17 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Bring in Colonies of Civil People of England and Scotland● A Lucky Escape, Scottish Lairds and the Division of Clandeboye● Planting Down and Antrim● The Rebellion of Sir Cahir O'Doherty● The Plantation of Ulster Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring France…
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Omnibus #16 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The Treaty of Mellifont● Remember, Remember the Fifth of November● They Wish to Kill Him by Poison● The Flight of the Earls● The Earls in Exile Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey…
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Omnibus #15 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The Scurvy Fort of Blackwater● The Earl of Essex's Failure● Mountjoy and Docwra● We Spare None of What Quality or Sex Soever● The Battle of Christmas Eve Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey…
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Omnibus #14 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The Pirate Queen of Connacht● Grainne O'Malley and the Composition of Connacht● The Siege of Enniskillen● The Battle of the Biscuits● Freeing the Country from the Rod of Tyrannical Evil Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, R…
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Omnibus #13 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The Adventures of Captain Francisco de Cuellar● The Wild Irish are Barbarous and Most Filthy in their diet● A Fit House for an Outlaw, a Meet Bed for a Rebel and an Apt Cloak for a Thief● The Capture of Red Hugh O’Neill● The Escape of Red Hugh O'Donnell Written …
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Omnibus #12 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● An English Queen, a Scottish Lady and a Dark Daughter● Holy War in Munster● The Plantation of Munster● The Wreck of the Armada● The Last Voyage of the Girona Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crumm…
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Omnibus #11 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Conn Bacach O'Neill Visits London● Religious Strife and Plantation● Shane the Proud● The Fall of Shane O'Neill● A Failed Plantation and a Bloody Feast in Belfast Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean C…
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Omnibus #10 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Garret Mor Fitzgerald, the Great Earl of Kildare● Garret Og and Silken Thomas Fitzgerald;● The Rebellion of Silken Thomas● The Church in Turmoil● Sober Ways, Politic Drifts and Amiable Persuasion Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James…
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Omnibus #9 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Into the Land of the Savage Irish● A Catalan Pilgrim Amongst the Unconquered Irish● Richard II's Great Expedition to Ireland● The Pale● Beyond the Pale Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.…
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Omnibus #8 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Famine● The Black Death● Gallowglasses● More Irish Than the Irish Themselves● The Statute of Kilkenny Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.بقلم BBC Radio Ulster
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